PANEL 13-A: Civil wars, dictatorships and transitions to democracy during the 20th century in secondary school textbooks

The panel off ers a space to reflect on the dynamics of continuity and/or rupture in an area such as the learning of history at school. What we often call «textbooks» are one of the fundamental devices in the construction of genealogies of historical time and narratives that are transmitted to students in their formative stages prior to Higher Education. But beyond the narratives about the past that they offer us, the underlying question has to do with the very processes of teaching-learning History as a problem. School and history learning are key aspects in the shaping of democratic values and citizenship, even more so and even more urgently in the face of the rising tide of new ways of «lying» about the past.